help building debug .pyd files

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc afaNOSPAM at neuf.fr
Wed Apr 11 18:36:37 EDT 2007


joshusdog at gmail.com a écrit :
> The installation of Python 2.5 comes with a bunch of built-in
> extension modules (.pyd files) under the DLLs directory. I've
> downloaded the Python source code and am trying to build the debug
> versions of all of these files. However, some of the projects won't
> build because they are looking for header files that don't exist
> anywhere. Specifically, the non-building projects are:
> 
> _bsddb
> _sqlite3
> _ssl
> _tkinter
> bz2
> 
> Additionally, the project for the _hashlib module seems to be entirely
> missing from the Python source. Any idea where I can find it?
> 
> Is there a set of pre-built debug versions of all of these modules I
> can download somewhere? It would save me a lot of time trying to
> figure out where all these missing files are supposed to come from...

You should read the file PCBuild/readme.txt.
It explains how to build python from source, and has long explanations 
about the same list of modules you are asking for.

And it works: I regularly use the debug build of python for my own projects.

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc



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